This is such an elegant and simple process! I would imagine the name, Medium, has at least two meanings—namely a medium through which information is shared at astronomical rates, and two, a medium ground between lengthy blog posts and a very terse 140 character limit. I applaud the folks at Obvious for such an obviously great and necessary product.
Web development has come a long way over the past couple of decades. I can remember designing in Microsoft Publisher (yeah that’s right, Publisher!) and then taking its output files to an FTP program to be uploaded to Tripod, back when member sites were preceded with a tilde (~). I
So there I was, a physics major in my second semester of German—I had already studied Russian in the military and wanted to get back into foreign languages—when all of a sudden I started to contemplate going to the University of California at Berkeley for linguistics. Why Cal?
I’ve been interested in numbers and foreign languages for as long as I can remember, mainly for their ability to represent other things. Code is somewhat of an amalgam of the two, it combines numbers and weird symbols to create functioning products transforming the ways in which both individuals
What about it? I think Ghost is definitely interesting, but I already prefer writing on Medium. Nothing against “blogging,” per se, I just enjoy the more fundamental shifts in communication being exposed by tools such as Twitter and Medium. Though I can see Ghost becoming the tool one seeks out